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Graphic Novels & Manga

Thanks to a generation raised on a steady diet of superhero movies, kid-friendly comic books, genre-savvy cartoons like Spongebob Squarepants, Dexter’s Laboratory, and Adventure Time, loads of manga, and regular doses of web-original comic strips like XKCD, we’re in the middle of a cartooning and comics renaissance.
The young adults known as the “Millennials” understand something [...]

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Science fiction and fantasy artist Fred Gambino’s art has been seen in films such as The Ant Bully and the Oscar-nominated Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius, as well as video games, book covers, and much more. Titan Books has published a collection of Gambino’s work titled The Art of Fred Gambino: Dark Shepherd. Gambino spoke with [...]

SF & Fantasy

Credit Reddit’s always-busy Game of Thrones subreddit for this offbeat but utterly charming little find: The characters of HBO’s Game of Thrones, as interpreted by an anonymous artist posting to the infamous 4chan forums. Every illustration is accompanied by a convincingly childish misinterpretation of the character’s name, what he or she does, and whether he [...]

Gaming

Slowly but surely, we’re losing the men and women who brought us Dungeons & Dragons. The game’s co-founders, Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, passed away in 2008 and 2009, respectively. Now comes more sad news: Artist David Trampier died on the morning of March 24 at Helia Healthcare in Carbondale, Illinois. He was 59 years-old, and allegedly in poor health.

Star Wars

Meet Leonid Kozienko, a largely self-taught Russian artist whose work has been used in several Star Wars-related products, including Fantasy Flight Games’ new role-playing game Star Wars: Edge of the Empire.

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Artist Toby Allen’s “Real Monsters” is a series depicting various kinds of mental illnesses as cartoonish monsters. By doing so, he addresses the power of stigma and brings the “monsters” to light, providing humor and understanding for those with mental illness and others who love them.

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A group of very dedicated pranksters (or cultists, or both) took their love for H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos to the extreme this week when they installed a large monument to chaos god Azathoth in front of Oklahoma City’s Paseo Grill.